From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7943472b74912187 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-03 16:45:41 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!kibo.news.demon.net!demon!peernews!peer.cwci.net!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfep3-gui.server.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "chris.danx" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Parrot for Ada? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Inktomi-Trace: pc3-bbrg1-2-cust234.ren.cable.ntl.com 1028418340 8453 80.5.140.234 (3 Aug 2002 23:45:40 GMT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 00:44:59 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.3.128.4 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: newsfep3-gui.server.ntli.net 1028418340 80.3.128.4 (Sun, 04 Aug 2002 00:45:40 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 00:45:40 BST Organization: ntl News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:27660 Date: 2002-08-04T00:44:59+01:00 List-Id: Ingo Marks wrote: > Slashdot has an article about "Parrot". > > http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/02/07/31/1225200.shtml?tid=145 > > Parrot is an interesting virtual machine, similar to .NET CLR and JVM. It > is planned to support Perl6 and other languages (so far Java, Python, Ruby, > Scheme). One design goal is portability among several platforms (Linux, > Cygwin, Win32, FreeBSD, Solaris, Tru64, OpenVMS). Parrot was chosen to > implement Perl6 because .NET CLR and JVM would be "not suitable". There was a discussion on Parrot on the virtmach mailing list, and looks like ones about to kick off. Don't know if it's useful (virtmach is such a low traffic list, I usually forget all about it and rarely read any posts). The posting address is virtmach@iecc.org, if you run a search for that with google the subscription address will likely turn up. Chris -- to reply by personal email change 'spamoff' to 'chris'